Corita Kent Quotes
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
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Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.
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Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
